Our Bar/Bat Mitzvah programs are offered for children preparing for their Bar/Bat Mitzvah and for adults. Please see the details below.

Children’s Bar/Bat Mitzvah program

This program, which prepares a boy/girl to become a bar/bat mitzvah, requires a two year commitment. During the two years of study the bar/bat mitzvah student will study Creation; G-d’s Appointed Times; Jewish History; Yeshua’s life, ministry, and Jewishness; and what it means to be a bar/bat mitzvah. For one semester of history, the student will choose to study either the history of the B’nei Anusim (Sephardic Jews) or the history of the modern state of Israel. The student will study Biblical Hebrew for the entire two years. The student will study his parashah (portion of Scripture canted in synagogues on the day he was born), will learn to cant a part of that parashah, and prepare a drash from that parashah. During this time, the student will also choose and complete a bar/bat mitzvah project aimed to benefit someone else. Preferably a boy will enter the program two years before his 13th birthday, and a girl, two or three years before her 12th birthday. But any child may enter the program at age 16 or under.

Adult B’nei Mitzvah program

In this multi-year program, the student will study Jewish history from Abraham to modern Israel and what it means to be a bar/bat mitzvah. The student must have successfully completed the Hebrew classes through Torah Cantillation. The student will study his parashah (portion of Scripture canted in synagogues on the day he was born) and will learn to cant a part of that parashah. During this time, the student will also choose and complete a bar/bat mitzvah project aimed to benefit someone else. At the completion of this program the student will be able to lead the prayer service for the Bar/ Bat Mitzvah ceremony, cant from his parashah, and give a drash on his parashah. This program is available for anyone age 16 or older.

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Messianic Judaism